[Bookstoprisoners] what books most popular in the jail?

[Holley K]

Without anyone taking a lot of time tabulating book by book,  I am just curious as to the categories of books that were checked out most often.   You're doing a great job there!

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Today's Topics:

1. Jail "statistics" to date (Susan Porter Bruce)
2. Books to Prisoners in Illinois (Sandra Ahten)


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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:34:07 -0600
From: Susan Porter Bruce 
Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] Jail "statistics" to date
To: BTP Libraries , BTP

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Jail Librarians and others interested in Books-to-Prisoners:

As you may know, the jail check-out cards were sorted last week, with 
the cards of those who have been released or sent to prison put in 
the back of the box. (Librarians did this using a print-out that a 
helpful guard brought in.)

I decided to take these home Friday so I could count up whatever was 
easily countable.

I estimate we've been going to the jail for 20 weeks, and during that 
time we created about 220-240 cards which are now retired. (I know 
there were more than I have, because we had quite a few smaller cards 
before we switched to the larger ones.) We probably have another 100 
currently in the box, i.e. people still at the jail and using the 
library.

Of the 220 I have, 52 were women (23%.) That seems higher than I 
might have thought, but there may be more turnover for women.

Some cards show only 1-2 books checked out, some have as many as 40. 
(We all know several who are on their second cards and who check out 
6 books each week.) Of course, it depends on the length of their 
stay, and how often they choose to come to the library.

I'll hang onto these, as we may want to sometime take the trouble to 
list the books checked out. If anyone wants to see these or do 
anything with them, let me know.

In sum, we've served something like 350 or 400 people.

Jay, perhaps we might share this with Nancy?

Susan Bruce


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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:45:30 +0000
From: "Sandra Ahten" 
Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] Books to Prisoners in Illinois
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To: Illinois Literacy Foundation
From: Sandra Ahten, Coordinator, UC-Books To Prisoners Program, 
www.books2prisoners.org

Hello, I am coordinating a Books To Prisoners Program for prisoners in 
Illinois Prisons. We have been active for nearly two years and have put more 
than 4000 books into the hands of inmates at no charge to them. We collect 
books from the community; sort and store them; and then answer individual 
inmates specific requests. We supplement our stock with dictionaries that we 
purchase. More than 85% of our first time requests are for dictionaries.

We have more than 20 volunteers participating each week.

In addition we have piloted a program that stocks and staffs our county 
jail.

We have done our own funding through books sales (selling excess donated 
books) and community solicitation /donations. We are supported in-kind 
through our parent organization the UC-Independent Media Center.

I am interested in meeting with you in person or by phone and discussing the 
possibility of the Illinois Literacy Foundation funding a few specific 
projects. Could you tell me how to reach you -- or what you believe our next 
step should be?

Sandra Ahten
217-367-6345




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